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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Other Countries' Presidents - François Hollande (HBO)

published:05 May 2014

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Other Countries' Presidents - François Hollande (HBO)

Did you know that there are other countries than the United States of America?
Each of them has its own leader.
Here's a look at France's President of the United States, François Hollande.
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Hollande was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, to a middle-class family. His mother, Nicole Frédérique Marguerite Tribert (1927–2009), was a social worker, and his father, Georges Gustave Hollande, an ear, nose, and throat doctor who "had once run for the extreme right in local politics." The surname "Hollande" is "believed to come from Calvinist ancestors who escaped Holland (the Netherlands) in the 16th century and took the name of their old country." Hollande was raised Catholic but quietly rebelled against the strict religious brothers chosen by his father to educate him. The family moved to Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, when Hollande was 13.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Other Countries' Presidents - François Hollande (HBO)

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